tarzanist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In the style of, or exhibiting, Tarzanism.
noun
An anthropologist who depicts early human evolution in terms of aggressive male hunters and passive baby-carrying women.
Example Sentences
- "But if he finds a niche in the Hardy theory, he surely throws a pretty hefty wrench into the Tarzanist works. If the hominid became bipedal in order to run after his prey, where did this bipedal plant-eater come from?"
- "The Nigerian writes in English, although he has urged the adoption of Kiswahili as a single language for Africa. "I find no contradiction, no sense of guilt, in the fact that I write and communicate in English," he said several years ago, dismissing as "neo-Tarzanist" the criticism that he was too "Europhile" in outlook."
- "How insightful her diagnosis of male tarzanism! How useful her words "tarzanist" and "tarzanism" and the concepts they embrace, for those of us who have to describe contemporary Australian political life. How commonplace our political leaders' overt displays of baboon-like "brute virility"."
- "The Tarzanists suggest that bipedalism enabled this ape to race after game while carrying weapons — in the first instance, presumably pebbles."
- "As for social structure, Morgan argues, the “Tarzanists,” as she calls them, conveniently overlook studies of primates that do not fit their model."
- "Pouring gentle, good-humoured scorn on what she calls the ‘Tarzanist-type’ theories of ‘Man the Hunter’, she nonetheless makes some firm points about the origin and development of the human family."